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MTS Data is provided entirely by the MTS Group Interdealer market, and is the benchmark source and reference for real-time executable and traded prices. MTS Group is the market leader for electronic fixed-income securities trading in Europe. On average, over €85 billion are traded each day, comprising activity for over 1,200 participants across 21 markets. The MTS Group has become the only genuine pan-European market for fixed-income securities present in all Eurozone countries and beyond, as well as in other debt markets in Europe. Known as “The European Bond Exchange,” it aids the overall development of the European government bond market and facilitates its integration. MTS endeavours to deliver the full benefits of an electronic trading marketplace while working with both issuers and participants to create a unified fixed-income market of unparalleled liquidity, transparency and efficiency.
As a leader in its field, SIX Telekurs specializes in the procurement, processing and distribution of international financial information. Financial market specialists at SIX Telekurs gather information from all the world’s major trading venues – directly and in real-time. The SIX Telekurs database with its structured and encoded securities administration data for more than 5 million financial instruments is unique in terms of its depth of information and data coverage. With offices in 23 countries, SIX Telekurs combines the advantages of global presence and local know-how.
ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of market data content and technologies to market makers, hedge funds, brokers and trading systems. The company provides managed low-latency and high-volume market data services to more than 300 customers worldwide. As vendor of record, ACTIV also delivers consolidated, hosted and on-site ticker plant services for exchanges around the globe. ACTIV is privately owned with offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London.
Asset Control provides centralized data management solutions for financial institutions worldwide. From business-entity to firm-wide projects, Asset Control offers a strategic reference and market data platform that delivers the accuracy, consistency and relevancy firms need to reduce costs and risk, manage evolving compliance needs, and accelerate the delivery of new products and services. A Fidelity Ventures company, Asset Control serves some of the world’s most successful financial institutions.
Alacra creates sophisticated online technology and services.
Alacra Pulse provides idea generation and current awareness from web-based content with a very high signal to noise ratio. The Pulse Platform is built upon Alacra's proprietary Applied Knowledge Extraction™ technology, to very accurately identify counterparties, legal entities or people; plus a range of business events, such as M & A rumors or bankruptcy filings. Alacra Pulse is an effective awareness alerting tool for monitoring your counterparty risk.
Contact: +44 (0) 207 743 7180 or ukinfo@alacra.com
Dow Jones & Company is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.
Fidelity ActionsXchange is the most trusted provider of flexible, technology-driven global corporate actions solutions for many of the world’s financial industry leaders. Leveraging more than 10 years of unparalleled analytical expertise, technology and service, we offer solutions that source, enhance, compare and validate corporate action announcements, turning even the most complex data into valuable intelligence. Our strategic value allows clients to reduce costs, mitigate risk, gain efficiencies and enhance transparency giving them the highest degree of control over their global event information.
GoldenSource makes it easy to manage critical reference and market data. We offer an integrated Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for the securities industry, with innovative solutions to create, maintain and distribute a trusted golden copy. GoldenSource covers all financial instruments, customers and counterparties, and extends to transactions and positions.
For nearly a century, IBM has been working with the world’s leading financial services institutions, building industry skills and making research and development investments specifically tuned to the needs of the global financial markets. Drawing on this experience and a proven history, IBM offers a wide range of technologies, software, services, and research and business partner applications. Simplify and streamline operations, integrate risk management and drive new insights, resulting in sustainable revenue growth. We’re ready to assemble the right components to help you capitalize on innovation and develop smarter solutions.
ICAP is the world’s premier interdealer broker and provider of post trade services. The Group matches buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, commodities, foreign exchange, emerging markets, equities and equity derivatives through voice and electronic networks. ICAP has an average daily transaction volume in excess of $2.3 trillion, more than 40% of which is electronic. ICAP is also the source of global market information and research for professionals in the international financial markets. ICAP plc was added to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006.
Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is an outsourcing provider of managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications. By outsourcing to Savvis, enterprises can focus on their core business while Savvis ensures the quality of their IT infrastructure. Leading IT organizations around the world have selected Savvis to help them improve their service levels, reduce capital expense and deal with the rising costs of bandwidth, energy, real estate, staff and expertise. As a pioneer in utility computing, Savvis understands and harnesses the latest advances in technology like virtualization, cloud computing and support process automation.
NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products (GDP) is focused on creating innovative real-time and historical data products that provide unsurpassed market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors. GDP products and services offer traders strategic advantages, including superior speed, depth and flexibility of data management and delivery. Products include real-time data feeds, web-based reports and plug-and-play technology for instant access to market data.
SmartStream Technologies provides industry-leading Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions that automate complex and scalable process flows to track and control financial transactions. 1,000 clients, including more than 75 of the world’s top 100 banks, rely on SmartStream’s solutions to reduce operational risk and cost while addressing regulation and improving customer service.
Xtrakter is a premier supplier of market and reference data, trade matching
and regulatory reporting services to the global capital market, since 1985. It
has an established track record in providing valued services offering services
such as;
• XNAV – Net Asset Valuation Service
• XM2M – Mark to Market Valuation Service
• Traded Prices, Quotes, Bid & Offers
• Reference data
Xtrakter is part of the Euroclear group of companies.
Acquire Media is an advanced technology company devoted to delivering News
(text & multimedia) with guaranteed reliability in formats that make content
instantly usable and searchable. We serve the news, digital publishing and
corporate communities (including Financial Services, Pharmaceutical,
Petro-chemical etc), which depend on the speed of our delivery, our reliability,
our 24x7 support plus our ability to handle multiple formats and delivery
options.
Our specialty is news and other time-sensitive content - acquiring it from
publishers and distributing it to corporate servers, websites and end users with
near-zero latency and pinpoint filtering. We are generally regarded as the
industry's most technically-sophisticated media delivery service for aggregated
content.
Capital IQ Platform is a web and Excel-based research product that combines deep information on companies, markets, and people worldwide with robust tools for fundamental analysis, financial modeling, idea generation, and workflow management. Capital IQ profiles over 58,000 public companies, 1,500,000 private companies, 1,900,000 professionals, 14,000 private capital firms, 899,000 active securities, 500,000 transactions, and more. The Capital IQ Platform is deployed at over 2,700 leading investment banks, fund managers, private capital firms, corporation, and other firms.
Hatstand is a niche IT consultancy that provides independent, professional services to the financial services industry since 1999. Hatstand has a core focus within the electronic trading and market data environments encompassing design, development, support, technical and business analysis, cost management, cost reduction and QA/ testing and additional valuable disciplines; project management, service management and a highly innovative thriving graduate scheme. Our thought leadership and enviable success in these practice areas assists our clients to gain measurably improved performance, latest competitive best practice, reduced risk and a substantially lower cost base.
LexisNexis provides intelligence to the world’s largest banks and financial
institutions to help them increase efficiency and reduce risk.
Draw on the world’s largest collection of news, business, company, executive and
online information to:
• Research and validate new opportunities
• Screen and monitor clients and partners
• Manage your risk exposure
To find out more about our research tools, analytics or bespoke risk monitoring solutions, please visit our webiste or call 020 7400 2984.
PolarLake enables firms to deliver on the full promise of EDM, integrating into downstream systems with 75% less time and 80% less resources than generic ETL products. It’s flagship product, PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) is a domain specific Integration application built to manage to end-to-end process of Reference Data Distribution. PolarLake RDD provides unique capabilities for Business Operations, Business Analysts and Technology to manage and control Reference Data Distribution. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in its space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution, included in the Gartner visionaries’ quadrant and named by Forrester as the best current offering in the ESB market. PolarLake’s clients include Global Sell side, Buy side and Asset Servicing Institutions.
Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world’s foremost provider of financial market intelligence.
Standard & Poor’s Fixed Income Risk Management Services delivers a portfolio of products and services to investors that serve the global financial markets by providing market intelligence and analytic insight for risk driven investment analysis.
Standard & Poor’s Fixed Income Risk Management Services are performed separately from any other analytic activity of Standard & Poor's. The unit has no access to non- public information received by other units of Standard & Poor's. Standard & Poor's does not trade on its own account.
For over 2400 institutional investment management firms worldwide, TheMarkets.com is the preferred partner for research from hundreds of brokers, estimates on thousands of companies, and applications that maximize relationships between the buy-side and the sell-side.
Our passion is creating easy-to-use, best-of-breed products that address specific needs in the buy-side workflow. All of our products pair intuitive design and must-have content to save our clients meaningful time every week.
Xenomorph is the leading provider of data and analytics management solutions to financial markets.
Our TimeScape technology encompasses the high performance capture, cleansing, storage, integration and analysis of reference, historical, real-time and derived data. The future-proof data model supports any financial asset class, from the simplest to the most complex. With our unified approach to the management of both data and analytics, our clients are achieving higher levels of financial innovation, business process efficiency and regulatory compliance.
